Word Type

Noun

Verb

Proper Noun

The word "plate" can be used as noun, verb and proper noun.

Word Relationships

Opposites (Antonyms)

bowl cup fork her

Typical Location

and old persons mouth cabinet cafeteria cubord cupboard dishwasher flea market hutch kitchen kitchen cupboard restaurant sink table

Derived Terms

Bitter plate CD plate Champy plate Chladni plate Chladni's plate Europlate Fresnel zone plate Ishihara plate L-plate Nickel Plate Road P-plate Platine Schmidt corrector plate armor plate armour plate armplate assay plate autoplate backplate base plate baseplate bedplate beef plate black plate blue plate blue plate special blue-plate blue-plate special bodyplate boiler plate boilerplate boiling plate bookplate bread-and-butter plate breastplate brest-plate bridging plate buckler plate butter plate buttplate cake plate catch plate cell plate chainplate channel plate cheek plate chestplate china plate chrome-plated chromium plate chromium-plate chromium-plated clean one's plate clean up one's plate clutch plate clutchplate collection plate collection-plate cooking plate copperplate cornplate cortical plate counterplate cribriform plate dam plate dead plate deckplate dessert-plate diamond plate die plate dinner plate dinnerplate dockplate doorplate dorsal plate drawplate dry plate dub plate dub-plate dubplate earth plate echo plate electroplate endplate epiphyseal plate eye plate face plate face-plate fall plate fashion plate filterplate fingerplate fishplate flexplate floorplate footplate forceplate futtock plate garbage plate give someone his head on a plate gold plate gold-plate golden plates growth plate hair plate half-plate hand someone his head on a plate heelplate heteroplate hot plate hot-plate hotplate hourplate immunoplate implate interplate intraplate jack of plate jaw plate keyplate kick plate kickplate lateral pterygoid plate legplate licence plate license plate lip plate lockplate luncheon plate lysoplate medial pterygoid plate microplate microtiter plate midplate miniplate misplate mixed plate nail plate name plate nameplate nanoplate neck plate neckplate neural plate nickel-plate nickel-plated nonplate notoplate number plate offering plate office floor plate on a plate on one's plate overplate paper plate perch plate perforation plate photographic plate photoplate piano plate picky plate picotiter plate pie plate pitcher's plate plate appearance plate armor plate armour plate away plate block plate bone plate carrée plate count plate girder plate glass plate glass university plate lunch plate mail plate mark plate meal plate money plate number coil plate out plate out plate paper plate powder plate press plate reader plate reverb plate sale plate ship plate tectonics plate up plate wheel plate-carrier plate-glass plate-glass university plate-out plateable platebound plateful plateholder platelayer platelaying platelegs plateless platelet platelike platemail platemaker platemaking plateman platemark plateroom plateroon plates of meat platescape plateskirt plateware plateway platewise platework plating pole plate preplate process plate pronto plate pterygoid plate quadrant plate quarter-plate quarter-wave plate raising plate reed plate register plate rego plate replate reverb plate ridgeplate roof-plate roving plate saddle plate salad plate sauceplate scratchplate screwplate selling plate shinplate short plate side plate sieve plate silver plate silver-plate skidplate slide plate small plate smokeplate soleplate spin plates star plate step up to the plate stereoplate stir plate streak plate strike plate striking plate string plate stripper plate subplate swash plate swashplate switchplate theoretical plate throatplate tie plate tieplate tin plate tin-plate tinplate toeplate toothplate tramplate treadplate trench plate troll plate trunnion plate tubeplate turnplate underplate vanity license plate vanity plate veiled plate visiplate wall plate water plate wave plate waveplate weight plate weirplate wet plate whole plate wrist plate zone plate λ/4 plate

Distinct From

bowel bowl cup cutlery flatware food fork saucer spoon

Etymologically Related To

river plate

Context

australia aviation baseball chemistry cockney rhyming slang construction dentistry electricity engineering furriers slang geology hat making heraldic charge herpetology historical music photography printing publishing travel industry weightlifting

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

Earth's crust anatomical structure anode bag base bodily structure body structure coat complex body part containerful crust cut of beef dental appliance entree flat solid flatware illustration main course receptacle sheet shield structural member structure surface

Type Of (IsA)

anode containerful crust cut of beef dish entree flat dish on flat surface flatware illustration receptacle set of false teeth sheet shield smoothness structural member structure

Made Of

ceramic glass

Manner Of

coat

Not Has Property

alive

Part Of

set of dishes structure tube

Receives Action

found in kitchen needed when eating meal

Related Terms

accessory accumulator again agenda animal anode apparatus argent armour at dinner at table ate ate on atop barbell base baseball baseball base baseball home baseball meaning beaver before between between utensils big big disc big flat big round big saucer bigger blow bowel bowl bowl cup bowls brisket but but bigger cabinet cabinets cake cake on carrier ceramic ceramic disc ceramic dish ceramic eating ceramics china china circle china dish china disk china flat china piece china setting china ware chinaware chine circle circle ceramic circle china circle disk circle shape circular circular ceramic circular cutlery circular dinnerware circular dis circular dish circular eating circular flat circular item circular object circular shape coin colorful container contents contest cooking cooking ware cookware copy course crockery crockery dish crockery item crust cup cup spoon cupboard cupboards cups cups bowls cups saucers cutlery december dental plate denture device dining dining disc dining dish dining disk dining piece dining room dining silverware dining surface dining table dining tables dining utensil dining ware dinner dinner accessory dinner bowl dinner ceramic dinner china dinner circle dinner container dinner crockery dinner device dinner dish dinner dishware dinner disk dinner eat dinner eater dinner flat dinner flatware dinner holder dinner implement dinner item dinner meals dinner on dinner porcelain dinner receptacle dinner saucer dinner served dinner server dinner service dinner serving dinner setting dinner slate dinner surface dinner table dinner time dinner utensil dinner vessel dinner ware dinner wear dinnerware dinnerware disc dinnerware piece dinning dinning room dinning table dinning ware dis disc dish dish china dish kind dish literally dish type dish wear dishes dishware dishwasher disk display dumbbell eat eat dinner eat food eat from eat in eat off eat on eaten eaten from eaten off eaten on eaten upon eater eating eating accessory eating apparatus eating bowl eating china eating circle eating container eating device eating dinner eating disc eating dish eating disk eating equipment eating flat eating food eating form eating from eating implement eating instrument eating item eating mat eating meals eating off eating on eating place eating placement eating saucer eating surface eating thing eating tool eating tray eating utensil eating utensils eating vessel eating with edge edges electrode electrolysis engraved entree equipment exercise fitted flat flat blow flat bowl flat ceramic flat china flat circle flat container flat crockery flat dinnerware flat disc flat dish flat disk flat holder flat object flat round flat saucer flat serving flat shape flat surface flat tableware flat thing flat top flat utensil flatness flattened flattened bowl flatter flatware flavor food food accessory food atop food carrier food china food container food disc food dish food disk food display food holder food holders food in food is food on food place food placement food plank food receptacle food saucer food server food serving food setting food sits food surface food tray food usually food utensil food vessel foot for dining for dinner for eating for food for mealtime for munching for serving fork fork knife fork spoon forks forks spoons form framing frisbee full fur garment glass glass item glass made good good china hamburgers hand has has food hat have hold hold food holder holder food holders holding holding food holds holds dinner holds food holds supper home home base home plate horizontal horseshoe house i have illustration image implanted implement in dish in meal inferior instrument is round it is item its its flat its round jobs jobs on kind kitchen kitchen crockery kitchen item kitchen table kitchen utensil kitchen ware kitchen wear kitchens kitchenware knife knife fork knives knives forks large large saucer layer license like like bowl like dish like saucer lining literally made made glass main main crockery mat material meal meal object meal tool meals mealtime meaning metal moon mouth munching musquash nap near fork object occupant of food off often often ceramic on hamburgers on table on tables oval paper paper dish piece pizza place place setting placement placing placing food plank plating porcelain pottery pottery dish prize put put food putting putting food racehorse receptacle recipient record reptile restaurants river plate room round round bowl round ceramic round ceramics round china round crockery round cutlery round dinnerware round disc round dish round dishware round disk round eating round edge round edges round flat round glass round holder round object round porcelain round saucer round serving round shape round shapes round sides round surface round tableware round thing round utensil round white roundel roundness run sable salad saucer saucers scales serve serve dinner served served on server serves serves dinner serves food service serving serving dinner serving dish serving disk serving food serving implement serving item serving piece serving utensil setting sew shallow shallow bowl shape shaped shapes sides silver silverware sits skin slate soup spoon spoons spoons forks steel stoneware studs supper surface table table crockery table dish table disk table item table occupant table setting table ware tables tableware tectonic tectonic plate tectonics teeth thing time tinctured too too many tool top transfer tray tupperware type type dish typically typically ceramic under under dinner under food uniform upon used used eat used eating usually usually white utensil utensils vacuum tube vertical very very flat vessel vinyl ware wear weight what what you where where food white white china white round whiteness width winner with you eat

Synonym Network

denture home plate

Used For

as component of mechancial equipment decoration dental device eat from eat off eating food off of eating from eating meal fixing shattered bones hold food holding holding food holding food eat holding food for one person holding meal medical device more formal than informal dining placing food upon before eating put food in put food on putting food on serve cookies serve food serve food for eating setting table stand on using with utensils to eat

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.